Harvey Weinstein is the co-founder of Miramax films and film producer with a net worth of $150 million. Harvey Weinstein earned his net worth through the producing of rock concerts with his brother, producing of many films, and as co-developer of the Weinstein Company with his brother. He was born in Flushing, New York in 1952.

Harvey Weinstein, CBE (Hon) (born March 19, 1952) is an American film producer and movie studio chairman. He is best known as co-founder of Miramax Films. He and his brother Bob have been co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, their film production company, since 2005. He won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for producing a variety of winning plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County.Born in Flushing, New York, Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob, grew up in a Jewish family in New York City, residing in a housing co-op named Electchester. He graduated from John Bowne High School, and then the State University of New York at Buffalo.Weinstein, along with his brother Bob Weinstein, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Both Weinstein brothers had grown up with a passion for movies and they nurtured a desire to enter the film industry. In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business, the brothers created a small independent film distribution company called Miramax, named after their parents - Miriam and Max. The company's first releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul McCartney's Rockshow. In the early 1980s Miramax acquired the rights to two British films of benefit shows filmed for human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis, the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film was released as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982 and it became Miramax's first hit. The movie raised considerable sums for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the US.The Weinsteins slowly built upon this success throughout the 1980s with arthouse fi

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We have to fight.” A few other celebrities were spotted in the crowd, including Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge, who are starring in the Broadway play “1984”; film producer Harvey Weinstein and his wife, the designer and actress Georgina Chapman ...

Olivia Wilde and Zoe Kazan were among those who led chants after the show, attended by Harvey Weinstein, Georgina Chapman and Marisa Tomei. Tuesday night’s audience of Michael Moore’s Broadway play The Terms of My Surrender were invited to partake in a ...

When Sophia Loren calls, you have a number of options. You can stand at attention, or you can say hello while you’re standing at attention. I chose both – with Sophia I always do. I worship her for her brilliant acting and as a link to the Italian ...

(JTA) – Film producer Harvey Weinstein said he will adapt a novel about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising for the silver screen. Weinstein, who has produced dozens of popular independent and Academy Award-winning films, wrote in an op-ed that he plans to direct ...

Producers are Alison Owen and Harvey Weinstein. Holliday Grainger, Jack O’Connell, Zach Galifianakis, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, and Cara Delevingne also star in the drama. The story is set in 17th century Amsterdam, with Vikander playing a married ...